Gerber Scientific

Gerber Scientific Inc., is a manufacturing company headquartered in Tolland, Connecticut. It supplies software and hardware systems for apparel and technical textiles, sign-making and specialty graphics, composites, and packaging applications.

Gerber Scientific had been owned by Vector Capital, a San Francisco-based global private equity firm from 2011 to 2021. CITIC Capital Partners, a China-based private equity firm, had a minority stake.

In 2021, Gerber Technology and its affiliated companies were acquired by the French manufacturer Lectra.

Divisions

Gerber Scientific, Inc. is divided into five businesses:

1. Gerber Technology provides hardware and software to manufacture with CAD software and computer-controlled cutting systems.
2. Gerber Innovations manufactures automated cutting hardware.
3. Virtek Vision International creates carbon fiber composite and sheet metal parts.
4. Gerber's Yunique Solutions makes product lifecycle management software.
5. Gerber Scientific Products manufactures computerized sign making and specialty graphics software, materials, and accessories for sign shops and graphics (for example, t-shirts with logos).

References

External links

• Official website
• Gerber Scale at The National Museum of American History
• Gerber, H. Joseph (1953) The Gerber Variable Scale – An application and instruction manual, The Gerber Scientific Instrument Company, P.O. Box 305, Hartford, Connecticut, No. 400, 39 pp (pdf 7.3 MB)